Rapid Cycling and Exceptional Yield in a Metal-Organic Framework Water Harvester
Abstract
Sorbent-assisted water harvesting from air represents an attractive way to address water scarcity in arid climates. Hitherto, sorbents developed for this technology have exclusively been designed to perform one water harvesting cycle (WHC) per day, but the productivities attained with this approach cannot reasonably meet the rising demand for drinking water. This work shows that a microporous aluminum-based metal-organic framework, MOF-303, can perform an adsorption-desorption cycle within minutes under a mild temperature swing, which opens the way for high-productivity water harvesting through rapid, continuous WHCs. Additionally, the favorable dynamic water sorption properties of MOF-303 allow it to outperform other commercial sorbents displaying excellent steady-state characteristics under similar experimental conditions. Finally, these findings are implemented in a new water harvester capable of generating 1.3 L kgMOF-1 day-1 in an indoor arid environment (32% relative humidity, 27 °C) and 0.7 L kgMOF-1 day-1 in the Mojave Desert (in conditions as extreme as 10% RH, 27 °C), representing an improvement by 1 order of magnitude over previously reported devices. This study demonstrates that creating sorbents capable of rapid water sorption dynamics, rather than merely focusing on high water capacities, is crucial to reach water production on a scale matching human consumption.
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- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States); Berkeley Global Science Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States); Berkeley Global Science Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States); King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1591817
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Central Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2374-7943
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; desorption; sorbents; adsorption; metal organic frameworks materials
Citation Formats
Hanikel, Nikita, Prévot, Mathieu S., Fathieh, Farhad, Kapustin, Eugene A., Lyu, Hao, Wang, Haoze, Diercks, Nicolas J., Glover, T. Grant, and Yaghi, Omar M. Rapid Cycling and Exceptional Yield in a Metal-Organic Framework Water Harvester. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1021/acscentsci.9b00745.
Hanikel, Nikita, Prévot, Mathieu S., Fathieh, Farhad, Kapustin, Eugene A., Lyu, Hao, Wang, Haoze, Diercks, Nicolas J., Glover, T. Grant, & Yaghi, Omar M. Rapid Cycling and Exceptional Yield in a Metal-Organic Framework Water Harvester. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.9b00745
Hanikel, Nikita, Prévot, Mathieu S., Fathieh, Farhad, Kapustin, Eugene A., Lyu, Hao, Wang, Haoze, Diercks, Nicolas J., Glover, T. Grant, and Yaghi, Omar M. Tue .
"Rapid Cycling and Exceptional Yield in a Metal-Organic Framework Water Harvester". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.9b00745. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1591817.
@article{osti_1591817,
title = {Rapid Cycling and Exceptional Yield in a Metal-Organic Framework Water Harvester},
author = {Hanikel, Nikita and Prévot, Mathieu S. and Fathieh, Farhad and Kapustin, Eugene A. and Lyu, Hao and Wang, Haoze and Diercks, Nicolas J. and Glover, T. Grant and Yaghi, Omar M.},
abstractNote = {Sorbent-assisted water harvesting from air represents an attractive way to address water scarcity in arid climates. Hitherto, sorbents developed for this technology have exclusively been designed to perform one water harvesting cycle (WHC) per day, but the productivities attained with this approach cannot reasonably meet the rising demand for drinking water. This work shows that a microporous aluminum-based metal-organic framework, MOF-303, can perform an adsorption-desorption cycle within minutes under a mild temperature swing, which opens the way for high-productivity water harvesting through rapid, continuous WHCs. Additionally, the favorable dynamic water sorption properties of MOF-303 allow it to outperform other commercial sorbents displaying excellent steady-state characteristics under similar experimental conditions. Finally, these findings are implemented in a new water harvester capable of generating 1.3 L kgMOF-1 day-1 in an indoor arid environment (32% relative humidity, 27 °C) and 0.7 L kgMOF-1 day-1 in the Mojave Desert (in conditions as extreme as 10% RH, 27 °C), representing an improvement by 1 order of magnitude over previously reported devices. This study demonstrates that creating sorbents capable of rapid water sorption dynamics, rather than merely focusing on high water capacities, is crucial to reach water production on a scale matching human consumption.},
doi = {10.1021/acscentsci.9b00745},
journal = {ACS Central Science},
number = 10,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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